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Spotlight on Claire Daly: Reluctant Soul Saver by Michele Brouder

Hi everyone! Sorry for the quiet, but I’ve been busy with Iris from IrisjeXx.com in town. She’s leaving tonight, so I’ll be back to normal soon!

In place of normal programming, I bring you a spotlight on Claire Daly: Reluctant Soul Saver by Michele Brouder! The first book in the Soul Saver series is current on sale for a week, so if you’re interested, now is the time to buy!

About the book

Publication date: September 2015

Genre: YA, Paranormal Romance

When seventeen year-old librarian wannabe Claire Daly is dragged kicking, screaming and cursing from everything she loves—her mam, her cozy Irish village and the dreamy boy next door—to take up arms in the battle of good versus evil, she learns the hard way that sometimes you don’t get to choose your own destiny, destiny chooses you.

Claire’s life plan is simple: head off to university to get her degree in library studies, summon up the courage to tell her best friend Chas that she loves him and live happily ever after. She never once entertained the idea that she might possess divine powers, that she might be predestined to battle Hell’s demons, or, to complicate matters further, that another love of many lives past might turn up on her doorstep.

But life doesn’t always go as planned, and when a co-worker is viciously attacked by a demon and her own family threatened, Claire must face the truth: she is called to a higher purpose and has no choice but to answer. Claire sets aside her dreams and begins learning how to deal with the Unholy once and for all. Armed with only a crash course in soul saving and her wits, she gears up for the ultimate show down in Hell. But will it be enough?

Excerpts

“When did this start?” I asked, trying to keep the quiver out of my voice. What I really wanted to do was jump up and down in front of him, wave my hand and yell, “Pick me, pick me!”

“Just recently. She’s been coming into the store for the past few weeks. We started talking about the benefits of spirulina and wheatgrass and I guess it just took off from there.”

Ava was just the type, too. She taught fitness down at the leisure club.

I had to admit, I had long been jealous of Ava because she had something that I didn’t have: boobs. Ava was top-heavy: she was in Limerick but her boobs were in Kerry. Self-consciously, I looked down at my own chest. Now it seemed she had something else I wanted: Chas.

“What’s your name?” he asked.

Suddenly, I felt shy. “Er, Claire. Claire Daly.”

“Lovely,” he murmured.

“And yours?” I asked, taking a deep breath and trying to muster a little courage. I hadn’t had a lot of practice making small talk with gorgeous strangers.

“Aristotle Vasilios,” he said with a grin.

“Well that’s a mouthful,” I mumbled. Soon, he’d begin to think I was incoherent or, worse, simple. “Greek?” I asked the obvious. Wow, I was really setting the world on fire with my questions.

He nodded. “My friends call me Ari.” He extended his hand. His grip was warm and firm and I remembered what Granddad used to say about being able to tell a lot about a man from his handshake.

About Michele Brouder

I was born in western New York, the oldest of 5. I've loved reading since I was very little. From the age of 9, I've wanted to be a writer. In high school, I wrote a lot of angst-ridden civil war dramas ala Gone With The Wind, knowing more about the Battle of the Bull Run than a normal teenager should know. I dabbled in writing after that but didn't get serious about it until 2006, when I decided that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

I've had many interesting jobs but my passion has always been writing.

I lived in Ireland from 2006-2013 with my husband and 2 boys. We moved back to the US and settled in Florida briefly (2 years) before returning back to Ireland in August 2015.

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